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The children gather around “Miss Danielle” Buehner. “Good morning. Buenos dias," she welcomes the preschoolers. “Buenos dias, Miss Danielle,” they chime. In this class of 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds, the children come to learn social skills and practice their numbers, colors and thinking skills. They also come to learn a second language — Spanish. Of the 14 students enrolled in Irving Recreation Center’s dual language preschool, two live in Spanish-speaking homes, two have a bilingual parent, and another with Latino ethnicity was adopted into an Anglo home. All the rest are English-speaking youngsters whose previous exposure to the Spanish language...

IRVING -- City officials are attributing a 7 percent drop in crime from 2006 to 2007 to several police initiatives, including a rigorous program that screens everyone arrested to identify illegal immigrants and turn them over to federal authorities. The Criminal Alien Program has led to the deportation of more than 2,000 people since it began in September 2006, and according to city officials, it has helped push down the crime rate. "If you have another level of removal from the community, then perhaps you're not going to have at least those people to arrest again," Mayor Herbert Gears said....

A manhunt in Texas continued Friday for a father accused of shooting his teen daughters and leaving them to die in a taxi. Yaser Abdel Said, 50, of Lewisville, Texas, is wanted for shooting Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18, in his taxi Tuesday night. Police say they don't have a motive for the shootings, but believe a domestic issue may have led to the deaths. Friends gathered Thursday night for a vigil to remember the sisters. The girls' mother, who has been in hiding since the shootings, attended. The victims' brother made a statement at the...

Federal immigration authorities have laid down new guidelines that will reduce the number of suspected illegal immigrants handed over from cities like Irving for possible deportation. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Dallas e-mailed a set of guidelines to the Irving Jail asking officials not to refer suspected illegal immigrants to them if they were arrested for a Class C misdemeanor. Because of that change, the number of suspects Irving turns over to ICE could drop by 60 percent, city officials said. "We are surprised by this action," Irving Mayor Herbert Gears said. "In fact, we cannot imagine how the...

<p>Hispanic activist Carlos Quintanilla was arrested in Irving on an accusation of driving with an invalid license and other charges Thursday, the same day he was organizing an immigration rally.</p> <p>Mr. Quintanilla said Accion America was holding its latest rally to urge police to not take people into custody for minor traffic violations just because they don't have a state-issued identification card or driver's license.</p>

RVING -- When pro-immigrant activists held a rally Wednesday against a police program that has led to more than 1,500 deportations this year, they told the crowd to call City Hall and demand an end to the program. City officials said they were swamped with nearly 500 calls the next day. But the calls were overwhelmingly in favor of the police crackdown, called the Criminal Alien Program. "We received a ton of phone calls at City Hall, ... and they have mostly been in support of our program," Mayor Herbert Gears said. He said he also got 265 e-mails Thursday,...

Mexican Consul Enrique Hubbard Urrea has issued an unusual warning to immigrants from his country: Avoid the city of Irving. Deportations in this city have skyrocketed in the last several months – from 262 in all of 2006 to 1,338 through mid-September. "In this city, one has to be extra careful," he told Al Día . "And if possible, avoid going through there, because we suspect, and with good reason, that people are being detained simply because of their appearance." At least 1,600 people have been turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement since June 2006 as part of the...

We are exactly one month away from the second annual Texas Transportation Forum to be held July 18–20 in Austin at the Hilton Austin located at 500 East 4th Street, one block north of the Austin Convention Center. Local, regional and state leaders will join national experts in exploring the solutions to "Keep Texas Moving." The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the Associated General Contractors of Texas, the Texas Good Roads Transportation Association, and the Texas Transportation Institute are co-hosts for the event. The keynote speaker for the opening session on July 19 will be Alan E. Pisarski, author of...

Holocaust denier, David Irving, is thrown out of a Polish book convention for breaking anti-nazi laws Published on 20 May 2007 | Author MORRIS, Nick. British "historian" and convicted Holocaust denier, David Irving, has been thrown out of a Polish book fair due to the Nazi apologist nature of his writings. Organisers of a Polish book fair today asked Irving, who was jailed in Austria for denying the Holocaust, to leave the event. Irving had been scheduled to present his books at an event organised by British publisher Focal Point, said Grzegorz Guzowski, head of the Ars Polonia company, which...

Holocaust denier David Irving on Friday said Jews should ask themselves why they have been hated throughout history. "They [Jews] should ask themselves the question, 'Why have they been so hated for 3000 years that there has been pogrom after pogrom in country after country?', said Irving, speaking at a press conference he convened in England on Friday, a day after he was released from an Austrian prison. Irving, who was sentenced to three years in prison for denying the Holocaust, was released last week after his appeal was granted. Asked if he sees himself as anti-Semitic, Irving said, "No,...

A Muslim organisation said yesterday that one of its founders had made a "grave mistake" when he sent money and letters of support to the historian David Irving, jailed this year in Austria for Holocaust denial. Asghar Bukhari, a former chief executive of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), which describes itself as a civil liberties group, admitted sending a donation to help Irving fight a libel case in 2000. Mr Bukhari said he now realised that Irving held "despicable" views. He made the £60 donation on the basis of a "limited" number of articles he had seen because he...

It is easy to dislike David Irving and to wish him good riddance as the British writer/historian begins a three-year prison term in Austria for Holocaust denial. The challenge in these ultra-sensitive times is to let him and others like him speak freely even as we cover our ears. The latter option is the American way, a bit of grace we take for granted most days. In Austria, where it is illegal to deny the Holocaust, citizens also do not enjoy a First Amendment. Speak skeptically of certain histories there -- or in other countries where speech and thought are...

Vienna - Austrian prosecutors said Wednesday they would have to act over a fresh denial of the Nazi Holocaust by jailed British historian David Irving. The new denial came in interviews with several British journalists in his Austrian prison cell, where he is beginning a three-year sentence. A spokesman of the state prosecution said: 'We're going to have to react to that. We can't overlook it.' It was possible that Irving had again broken Austrian laws banning Nazi 'revivalism

David Irving, the author who was jailed in Austria last week for Holocaust denial, has again claimed that Adolf Hitler did not oversee an organised programme of extermination of Jewish people in Europe. Irving: admits some Jews were gassed In an interview from his jail cell broadcast today, he insisted he still believed the numbers gassed at Auschwitz were relatively small. "Given the ruthless efficiency of the Germans, if there was an extermination programme to kill all the Jews, how come so many survived?" asked Irving in the interview for BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Speech that is not felt by some powerful group to be loathsome is hardly in need of protection. The value of an absolutist opposition to the censorship of speech, as enshrined in the US Constitution's First Amendment, is that it holds out the prospect that the right to speak will be honored even when the content of those utterances is not. What is disturbing in both the Irving and Muhammad cartoon situations is the stuttering hesitancy of many who claim to be committed to free speech to speak out in opposition to those--be they Muslim clerics or Austrian judges--who seek...

Holocaust denier deserves to be ignored, not thrown in prison Last winter, on a cold and black night, I went to hear the Holocaust denier David Irving speak at the University of Colorado. I arrived early to get a good seat and soon after me came five huge young men, all of them looking like skinheads. I glared at them, and they glared at me and for a moment I feared I was going to meet my maker. But it turned out that when Irving started to speak, the skinheads of my fertile imagination rose as one, unfurled an Israeli...

VIENNA, Austria -- Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after admitting to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaust _ a crime in the country where Hitler was born. Irving, who pleaded guilty and then insisted during his one-day trial that he now acknowledged the Nazis' World War II slaughter of 6 million Jews, had faced up to 10 years behind bars. Before the verdict, Irving conceded he had erred in contending there were no gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp. [snip} But despite his apparent epiphany, Irving, 67, maintained he...

David Irving, the controversial historian, has confirmed he is to appeal against his three-year sentence for denying the Holocaust. Irving admits to 'refining' his Holocaust thinking In a television interview given from his jail in Austria, Irving, 67, said "I come from a free country, I am not going to let anybody silence me. "They are not going to succeed, I don't think." During his day-long trial in Vienna on Monday, he pleaded guilty to denying the Holocaust, but insisted that he now acknowledged the Nazis' slaughter of six million Jews during the Second World War.

An Austrian court on Monday sentenced British Holocaust denier David Irving to three years behind bars, thereby sparking a controversy about whether it's appropriate to imprison anyone for ostensibly only voicing his opinions. The problem is that denying the murder of six million Jews is not an "opinion," but hate speech. In 1989 Irving had delivered three lectures in Austria in which he contended that the Nazis had not exterminated Jews in World War II. At the time disputing the existence or extent of the Holocaust was already illegal in Austria, homeland of the two most notorious Adolfs - Hitler...

The trial and conviction of David Irving provides much food for thought. First, there is Irving’s own confession that he is a “holocaust denier.” Whatever one may think of the merits of Irving’s work, his confession—for whatever motive (probably fear)—casts an ugly shadow on what he has done. He and many of his defenders have always denied this charge. Now he has admitted it, there is no more to be said. Then, there is his recantation. You see, he is now convinced, after going through Adolf Eichmann’s papers, that the Nazis really did kill millions of Jews. That should about...

European press split over Irving Irving has said he will appeal against his sentence The three-year prison sentence handed down by an Austrian court to British historian David Irving for denying the Holocaust divides opinion in Europe's press. In Austria, a commentator on a leading daily has no doubts that the sentence was fully justified, notwithstanding that the country is a democracy. But elsewhere, commentators worry that the sentence has undermined the fundamental democratic right of freedom of speech, and argue the principle should be upheld however abhorrent the views expressed. Hans Rauscher in Austria's Der Standard Holocaust deniers like...

Austrian prosecutors have filed an appeal against the three-year prison sentence handed to the British historian David Irving, arguing that he escaped too lightly for the crime of Holocaust denial. Irving was left stunned and open-mouthed when the sentence was handed down after a one-day trial in a Vienna court yesterday. After entering a guilty plea and publicly accepting that he had made a mistake when denying existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz, Irving had clearly expected a more lenient punishment over two speeches made to Austrian neo-Nazis in 1989. Irving's defence lawyer, Elmar Kresbach, has already appealed against the...

British historian David Irving was sentenced in Austria to three years in prison after pleading guilty on Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust, saying he erred in contending there were no Nazi gas chambers during the Second World War. Irving could have received a 10-year prison term. Under Austrian law, it is a crime to publicly diminish, deny or justify the Holocaust. Handcuffed and wearing a dark suit, Irving arrived at the courthouse in Vienna carrying one of his books, Hitler's War, which challenges the extent of the Holocaust. "I made a mistake when I said there were no...

British historian David Irving sentenced to three years in prison in Austria for denying Holocaust; earlier, Irving pleaded guilty to the charges but insisted he now acknowledges killing of Jews Associated Press (VIDEO) Going to jail: Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison in Austria on Monday for denying the Holocaust, which is illegal in in the country. Irving, who pleaded guilty and insisted during his one-day trial that he had a change of heart and now acknowledged the Nazis' World War II slaughter of 6 million Jews, faced up to 10 years behind bars...

The trial of British Holocaust denier David Irving begins in Vienna with a guilty plea. A verdict is expected on Monday afternoon, but Irving is asking for leniency. British historian David Irving: "I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz." Notorious British right-wing historian David Irving finally got his day in court in Vienna on Monday, where he is facing charges that could lead to up to 10 years of imprisonment in Austria on allegations that he denied the extent of the Holocaust. Irving plead guilty to the charges and told reporters that he...

British historian David Irving has been found guilty in Vienna of denying the Holocaust of European Jewry and sentenced to three years in prison. He had pleaded guilty to the charge, based on a speech and interview he gave in Austria in 1989. "I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz," he told the court in the Austrian capital. Irving appeared stunned by the sentence, and told reporters: "I'm very shocked and I'm going to appeal." An unidentified onlooker told him: "Stay strong!". Irving's lawyer said he considered the verdict "a little too stringent"....

Right-wing British historian David Irving pleaded guilty Monday to denying the Holocaust and was sentenced to three years in prison, even after conceding he wrongly said there were no Nazi gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Irving, handcuffed and wearing a navy blue suit, arrived in court carrying a copy of one of his most controversial books — "Hitler's War," which challenges the extent of the Holocaust. "I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz," Irving told the court before his sentencing, at which he faced up to 10 years in prison. He...

David Irving, the revisionist historian, pleaded guilty today to criminal charges of denying the Holocaust and conceded that he had been mistaken when he claimed that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. But, in comments to reporters and in testimony before a Viennese court, the British writer denied that he had ever written a book specifically about the Holocaust and said that after revision of his own views he now accepted that million of Jews were indeed murdered in Nazi death camps. "I am not a Holocaust denier. My views have changed," he said. "History is a constantly growing...

On Monday, December 5, The Wall Street Journal published a major commentary by Robert Conquest, the dean of historians on Soviet tyranny and, for some of us, one of the greatest living moral exemplars in the world. Few authors have written so much and so well on the horrors of Communism. In a column titled "Stalinophilia," Conquest described the case of a minor Italian academic, Luciano Canfora, who has managed to publish a pro-Soviet account of 20th century politics, called in its original tongue "Democracy: History of an Ideology." Canfora's volume has come out in Italy, France, Spain and England....

Nazi historian Irving finds his books in Austrian jail library By Kate Connolly in Berlin (Filed: 02/12/2005) David Irving, the British historian, has embarrassed Austria's judicial authorities by finding his own books in a prison library while in custody on charges of Holocaust denial. Irving, 67, who will spend Christmas and the New Year behind bars pending trial, found two of his most contentious books in the Graz prison library after asking for something to read. He said in an interview he signed both, German translations of Hitler's War and The Destruction of Convoy PQ-17, before returning them to guards....

VIENNA, Austria - British historian David Irving was arrested last week in southern Austria on a warrant accusing him of denying the Holocaust, the Interior Ministry said Thursday. Irving was arrested Nov. 11 in Styria province, said police Maj. Rudolf Golia, an Interior Ministry spokesman. He was transferred to a prison in Graz. Irving was detained on a warrant issued in 1989 under Austrian laws that make Holocaust denial a crime, Golia said. The accusation stemmed from speeches Irving delivered that year in Vienna and in the southern town of Leoben.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Historian David Irving, known for his controversial views on World War Two, has been arrested in Austria on suspicion of denying the Holocaust, an interior ministry spokesman said on Thursday. Irving was arrested on November 11 near the town of Hartberg in the southern province of Styria under a warrant issued in 1989, interior ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia said. "He is on remand in Vienna," Gollia said. Asked what Irving had been arrested for, Gollia said: "It is to do with ... Holocaust denial." The spokesman declined to comment on whether or when he would be charged....

BRITISH historian David Irving now acknowledges Nazi gas chambers existed, and admits some of his past statements could be interpreted as denying people were gassed. On the day before Irving faces a court hearing, his lawyer Elmar Kresbach said the historian had "changed some of the views he is so famous for". "He told me: 'Look, there was a certain period when I drew conclusions from individual sources which are maybe provocative or could be misinterpreted or could be even wrong'," Mr Kresbach said. Prosecutors this week charged Irving, 67, with denying the Holocaust, which is a crime under Austrian...

Controversial British historian David Irving, who denies the Holocaust took place, is under arrest in Austria on a 1989 warrant issued over his negationist views, the country’s interior ministry said Thursday. Irving was detained after a routine check on a highway last Friday. The November 1989 warrant was issued by a Vienna court against Irving for being an apologist for the Nazi regime, Interior ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia said, and to stop him taking part in a neo-Nazi meeting. The offence carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The right-wing historian was apparently on his way to a...

Ramiro Dela Fuente attended a recent forum on the proposed Interstate 69 highway, because like a lot of other people, he’s anxious about which route it might take. "Interstates bring commerce. Restaurants, hotels, stores start building up around them. That would be good for Harlingen," the 58-year-old Harlingen resident said. "We’ve been seeing the signs for future routes of I-69 everywhere, and we don’t know where it’s actually going." At this point, nobody really knows. What many agree on is this: The route that is eventually selected will become the gateway to the Rio Grande Valley. Will it be U.S....

Residents eye proposal for new highway project Dozens of area residents examined maps of proposed routes and discussed the implications of the proposed I-69 Trans-Texas Corridor at an open house Wednesday in Calallen. Still in its preliminary stages, the proposed highway will stretch from Mexico to Canada. In Texas, it generally will follow U.S. Highway 59 from Texarkana to Victoria. From there it will split and go to both Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley, roughly following U.S. Highways 59 and 77. The project is undergoing an environmental impact study, said Doug Booher, TXDOT environmental manager. Fred Wollmann, who lives...

NEW YORK Apr 14, 2005 — Four more people were charged Thursday in the scandal in the U.N. oil-for-food program, including a Texas oil executive and a South Korean businessman who was at the center of a 1970s corruption case involving Congress. ~snip~U.S. Attorney David Kelley called the new charges "two more pieces in the oil-for-food puzzle" and said the investigation is not over. ~snip~One of the indictments announced Thursday charges a Texas oil company owner and two oil traders with paying millions in secret kickbacks to Saddam's regime to secure oil deals, thus cheating the program out of money...

IRVING -- An armed Dallas man suspected of trying to hold up apartment residents was critically injured after getting into a fight with the victims, who defended themselves with a knife and sword. The 20-year-old suspect, who brandished a handgun, was stabbed in the neck and suffered life-threatening injuries, police said. He was in Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas on Tuesday morning. Police did not release the names of the suspect or victims. The brawl occurred about 8:30 p.m. Monday in the 3300 block of Willow Creek Drive at the Tanner Apartments. A 20-year-old Irving man was standing outside his...

Mother: Idea came from WebChili powder that killed baby supposed to cure thumb sucking, she says09:12 PM CDT on Wednesday, June 2, 2004By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News A teenage mother accused of killing her 5-month-old daughter by applying a home anti-thumb-sucking remedy said she got the idea off the Internet, according to court documents released Wednesday. Angela Disabella, 19, told detectives she put chili powder on the thumb of her daughter, Kira, after reading about it online, a search warrant affidavit states. She also told police she wanted to stop the baby from crying. On Monday afternoon,...

Punishment phase of escapee's trial begins04:11 PM CST on Monday, November 17, 2003By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News Prosecutors presented graphic testimony about Patrick Murphy Jr.’s role in a violent prison escape as well as details of his 1984 sexual assault conviction on the first day of the punishment phase of his capital murder trial. Already convicted of capital murder, Mr. Murphy faces life in prison or the death penalty for his role in the death of Irving police Officer Aubrey Hawkins, who was fatally shot during a botched Christmas Eve 2000 robbery. Defense attorneys chose not to...

Escapee Patrick Murphy found guilty of murder01:46 PM CST on Thursday, November 13, 2003By DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News A Dallas County jury found Patrick Murphy Jr. guilty of capital murder Thursday in the death of an Irving police officer. It took the jury about an hour and 10 minutes to reach the verdict. The punishment phase of the trial is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Monday. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. "The evidence could not be more damning for Patrick Murphy," prosecutor Bill H. Wirskye told jurors during his closing argument. He pointed at Mr....

Trial for 6th escapee may be challengeInmate was said to be lookout, driver when Irving officer was shot10:24 AM CST on Monday, November 10, 2003By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News Five death-penalty trials have come and gone with the same outcome since members of the so-called Texas Seven prison gang were captured in the Colorado Rockies in January 2001. As the last of the surviving gang members faces trial Monday, observers say the case against Patrick Murphy Jr. could be the most challenging yet for prosecutors seeking a sixth death-penalty conviction. In the capital murder trials so far,...

Driver given 30 years for waitress' slaying 07/22/2003By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News A Dallas County jury ignored Sarah Foust's plea for probation Monday, sentencing the 19-year-old single mother to 30 years in prison in the hit-and-run death of an Irving waitress who was trying to collect an unpaid restaurant bill. Ms. Foust trembled and sobbed as the parents of 20-year-old Jennifer Sanchez addressed her moments after the jury's sentence on the sixth day of her murder trial. The victim's mother, Brenda Sanchez, supported the jury's punishment but told Ms. Foust that her murder conviction amounts to a...

Irving moves closer to ban on smoking07/20/2003By CONNIE PILOTO / The Dallas Morning News IRVING – Irving has taken another small step toward a ban on smoking in most public places. The health board's recently approved final draft of the proposed ordinance will next go before the City Council's Community Services Committee. The committee will review the ordinance before forwarding it to the City Council for action. The date of the committee's review had not been set by Friday. Under the proposal finalized by the health board Thursday, smoking would be outlawed in restaurants, grocery stores, malls, bowling alleys...

Foust guilty of murder in death of Irving waitress07/18/2003From Staff Reports Dallas County jurors convicted 19-year-old Sarah Foust of murder in the hit-and-run death of an Irving waitress. Ms. Foust faces five to 99 years in prison. Testimony in the punishment phase of the trial will begin Monday. Ms. Foust testified Thursday that she didn't realize that waitress Jennifer Sanchez, 20, was on top of the Chevrolet Nova as she sped out of a Bennigan's parking lot in Irving early in the morning of Jan. 3. Ms. Sanchez had been trying to get the car's license plate number when...

Murder case in hit-run death of waitress goes to juryDriver: 'I never meant to hurt her'07/18/2003By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News Through sobs, Sarah Foust described on Thursday a drunken plan to skip out on a restaurant tab but denied that she intended to harm a waitress who died trying to stop her and her friends as they drove away. Ms. Foust was the only witness presented by the defense in her murder trial. Jurors deliberated more than three hours before they were sent home with orders to reconvene Friday morning. Ms. Foust faces five to 99...

Jury hears taped conversation during hit-and-run murder trial07/16/2003By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News Moments after police apprehended her, Sarah Foust repeatedly used expletives to refer to a hit-and-run victim and said the young woman was at fault for being on top of Ms. Foust’s car as she drove away. “If that [expletive] is stupid enough to climb up on that [expletive] roof, then I’m sorry about her luck,” Ms. Foust said as she sat handcuffed with her friend, Kortnie Henson, in the back of an Irving police patrol cruiser early on the morning of Jan. 3. The...

Accused teen seeks plea bargainProsecutors decline; trial to proceed in death of Irving waitress07/15/2003By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News Attorneys for the 19-year-old woman accused of killing an Irving waitress offered Monday to have her plead guilty to lesser charges of manslaughter or intoxication manslaughter, but prosecutors said they planned to proceed with the murder trial, which is to continue Tuesday morning. Dozens of the nearly 100 Dallas County residents called for jury selection in the murder trial of Sarah Foust told District Judge Janice Warder that they knew at least some of the details surrounding the...

Bednarek sentenced to 99 years in Ryno case06/19/2003By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News Witnesses may have disagreed about details of the abduction, rape and murder of 3-year-old Cristy Ryno, but jurors in Brett Bednarek's trial said DNA was the key piece of evidence. They deliberated about 2 ½ hours Thursday before sentencing Mr. Bednarek to 99 years in prison for sexually assaulting the Irving child in April 1999. Jury foreman Daryl Smith said jurors believed that clerical errors pointed out by defense attorneys did not taint scientific findings linking Mr. Bednarek to semen recovered from the child's body....

Guilty verdict in Ryno assault trialBrett Bednarek also faces murder charges in connection with her death06/18/2003By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News Dallas County jurors have convicted Brett Bednarek in the sexual assault of a 3-year-old Irving girl who went missing in April 1999. Cristy Ryno's body was found days after she disappeared from an Irving apartment complex where she lived. Jurors are now hearing testimony in the punishment phase of the trial. Mr. Bednarek, 27, faces up to life in prison. Brett Bednarek In closing arguments Wednesday morning, prosecutors stressed that DNA recovered from semen found inside Cristy's...